New to AA? Got questions? Here's the place to ask. Note that no one person speaks "officially" for AA. AA meetings in your local area are always the best source of information. Note that anyone may post and reply to messages in this forum.

Some of you may already know about our closed forums -- womens, mens, and desire to stop drinking. These are the only forums that you have to make a request to join and they are not indexed in search engines. There is a post in the "start here" sub-forum" in the general forums telling you about the closed forums and how you can join. As this is a the newcomers sub-forum I thought that it might be helpful and user friendly to post this sticky topic to be sure that all who are new to these boards know about the closed forums and how you may join.

As far as I know, once you join you should see the forums you have joined on your main page. As some of you know, I was a moderator when I first posted this, and I am no longer a moderator. Whipping post, if you have any questions, you should contact either the forum coordinator, PaigeB for more assistance. Look at the bottom right had portion of your screen and click on the link that says "team." Or ask again on this forum and I am sure that someone will answer your questions.

Hawk

whipping post wrote:Thank you for posting this. Do these show up in the "active topic" feed once you join?

Paige B, my view switched to this crazy mobile view and there are no options to change it back that I can find. I hate this mobile version because I have no option for new posts or unread topics. Do you know any way I can go back to the desktop view?

I was once part of the AA Loners group and used to received daily notices of experience strength and hope to my email I am unable to attend meetings as my medical condition so I'm hoping I've joined the right site for this as need to do meetings on line and keep sharing the messageThanks and kind regards

Normally you would go to the ‘user control panel’ on the top left below ‘Board Index,’ open it and click ‘Usergroups,’ and select the ones you wish to join. I will add your name now to the main one ‘Registered Discussion,’ if you have any further questions please let us know.

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